The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-20
GEN. PIcKETT's WIDOW.
Her Gift to Her Husband Twenty Years
Ago.

ago.
From the Baltimore Suu.l
Just twenty years ago, on the eve OF ths
anniversary of Gettysburg, Mrs. Pickett
made her husband an anniversary gilt
which she knew would please him. S1s
had made some money by translating, aud
expended a portion OF it for the gift.
While a cadet ,at West Point Gen. Pick
ett's mother presented him with a gold
watch, and he valued it highly. His wife
obtained the watch to have it cleaned aud
had the Confederate and Union flags cross
ed upon its outside in colors. Inside she
had engraved a list of the battles in which
be had participated in Mexico and those
in which he had engaged during the
civil war Both lists were long. The
latter list included Yorktown, Williams
burg, Seven Pines Gaines Mills, where he
vas wounded; Fredericksburg, Saffolk,
Getty burg, Newborn, Petersburg, North
Anna. Coal Harbor, Bermuda Hundred,
Five Forks, Dinwiddie Court House, Sail
or's Creek and Appomattox. She could
not have the work done in Richmond at
the time, aud it was thought so strange
that Confederate Generals wife really
wanted the two flags entwined on her hus-
hands watch that the work had to be done
in Baltimore. when gave it to him."
said Mrs Pickett in tremulous voice, Il
made his heart so full he could hardly
speak. He had fought under the old flag
in a foreign country, and loved the flag
and those he had fought With under it. He
said it was the hardest act of his life to
order the men to ire on the old flag" Gen.
Pickett died at Norfolk, Va, July, 1915.
His last words were Good night" Mrs.
Pickett had the watch decorated to show
her husband that she forgave him for max.
ing her shake hands with Yankees and &C
cept bospitaliues from them, and to show
him that Southern women could overcome
their pre- iudices.' Mrs. Pickett was
Miss Lssalle Corbell, Of Chuckatuck, Naa-
semoHd County, Va.
Attic sge of fifteen she married Gen. Pick
cit, September 10, 1868. Sac has a letter
from Gen. Pickett, written just before the
famous charge, in which he gives an &C.
count of Longsneets objection to the
charge, IN which is an account of the way
IN which Longstreet took leave of him as
he led the division off to the charge. Mrs.
Pickett went with her husband through
portion OF the war which followed her
marriage, going into camp. She was under
fire at the re taking Of the lines at Peters
burg. The last review other husbands old
division was at Chester Station, between
Petersburg and Richmond. The Generals
men were ragged and bs-efooted, and Gen.
Pickett said evsry life lost after that
Pickett vas on horseback at her husbands
side.
After the war Gen. Pickett and vile went
to Canada, and lived there under the name
of Edwards. They were poor, and Mrs.
Pickett got position as teacher of latin
and elocution. This position, she stated,
she owed indirectly 10 Mr.. Lincoln, who, in
1912, appointed Gen. Pickett a cadet to
West Point from Illinois. Without telling
Gen. Pickett, Mrs. Pickett answered an ad-
vertisement fer q teacher. she was so
yourg looking that she was informed a
teacher was wanted. not scholar. Then she
wss asked for references. She had dip
Iona, but she was afraid TO produce it, as
ii would show she was from Virginia. An
examination resulted in her getting the
| place. Returning from Canada they stop
ped in New York, engaging small apart
ments, but old friends OF her husband put
them in fine quarters, put a carriage at
their disposal, paid all their bills, and did
so mech that feelings of friendship were
established that can never be broken.